Video Insertion Tool Vodpod Gains Users

The Vodpod video widget program, which lets Web sites and blogs place selections of videos on their sites automatically, is gaining users, Beet.TV says. Talking Points Memo, a political blog, just started using the widget, and NewTeeVee, the online video news site, has used it since last year. Here’s an interview that Beet.TV’s Andy Plesser did with Vodpod’s co-founder Mark Hall. Placing video on Web sites is an ever-more crowded field, with players including Magnify.net, offering various twists on how to get it done.